Includes bibliographical references and index

Historical currents and the Great Depression -- Who was roaring in the twenties?: origins of the Great Depression -- In the right place at the wrong time?: Herbert Hoover -- Nature takes its course: the first years of the Depression -- The lord of the manor: FDR -- "And what was dead was hope": 1932 and the interregnum -- "Action, and action now": the hundred days and beyond -- "Fear itself": Depression life -- Moral economics: American values and culture in the Great Depression -- Thunder on the left: rising unrest, 1934-35 -- "I'm that kind of liberal because I'm that kind of conservative": the second New Deal -- New Hickory: the WPA, the election of 1936, and the court fight -- The CIO and the later New Deal -- "Dr. New Deal" runs out of medicine: the last years of the Depression, 1939-41 -- Perspective: the Great Depression and modern America

Provides cultural and social perspectives while examining the political and economic history of the U.S. from 1929-1941

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